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Value chain analysis of Lake Malawi fish: a case study of Oreochromis spp (Chambo)

Phiri, Letson Yoyola; Dzanja, Joseph; Kakota, Tasokwa; Hara, Mafaniso (Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 2013)

Chambo has potential of improving fishers’ socio-economic status in Malawi. The paper examines Chambo value chain whose findings will improve fish marketing by actors along the chain. Quantitative value chain analysis used, ...
The value components of contract farming in contemporary capitalism

Dubb, Alex (Wiley, 2018)

Contract farming (CF) has generally been understood as, essentially, a market institution—by both (approving) “mainstream” and (critical) “radical” perspectives. Analyses of relations of production have, meanwhile, tended ...
Women's land rights and social change in rural South Africa: the case of Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal

Cousins, Ben (Juta Law, 2013)

Changing marriage practices and a continuing decline in marriage rates are generating tensions in rural South Africa and prompting innovations in the character of women's rights to land. Empirical evidence of changing ...